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Adobe Lightroom for mobile is a free app that gives you powerful yet simple solutions to capture, edit, and share your photos. You can also upgrade for premium features to have more precise editing control with seamless access to your work across all platforms – mobile, desktop, and web.

Get to know the workspace

Home view

Tap the Home () icon to view your Recent Albums and Recently Added photos, or easily navigate to the All Photos view. While in the Home view, you can also explore a number of interactive Learn tutorials and take a cue from inspiring edits by fellow photography members in the Discover section.

All Photos view (all Lightroom photos)

All Photos view is a timeline-based view of all your Lightroom photos segmented by month (default). To access the All Photos view, click in the top panel of the screen or click All Photos in the Home view.

All Photos view (iOS)

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In All Photos view, tap with two fingers to cycle through various metadata-related information.

The People View in Lightroom for mobile (iOS) recognizes and groups photos of the same person in a cluster. You can easily browse through the photos of any particular person using the People View.

The No People Found Yet screen message is displayed when Lightroom is still analyzing all your photos to find people or when there aren't any people in your photos.

Not able to view People clusters under People view. Here's why.

People option to group photos of a person in a cluster

People view in Lightroom mobile for iOS

View people in your photos

Tap the () icon at the upper-left corner of the app window to open the Albums View in the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for iOS.

Select People under the Albums View to navigate to the People View.

In this view, you can access clusters of photos detected for a particular person. The total number of photos for each person is listed below the cover photo of the cluster.

Show & Hide People

Tap () icon from the upper-right corner of the People View.

Select Show & Hide People to bring up the Show & Hide People panel.

All people clusters that are shown in the People View are selected by default. In the Show & Hide People panel, select a hidden cluster to show it. To hide a cluster, deselect it.

Tap at the upper-right corner to apply your selection.

Merge People

Tap () icon from the upper-right corner of the People View.

Select Merge People to bring up the Merge People panel.

Select the people clusters that you want to merge.

Tap at the upper-right corner. In the Are these the same person? dialog box that appears, approve the suggested cluster name or rename the cluster to a desired person's name in the Add a Name field.

Tap Merge. All photos of the selected people will merge together into one person. To exit the dialog box without the merge action, tap Cancel.

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Lightroom for iOS can detect if two clusters belong to the same person. In this case, you can view a suggestion in the top panel to merge the clusters when you open one of them. Tap Yes to merge the clusters or No to not merge. If you tap No, the merge suggestion for the specific clusters will not be shown again. You can also tap the cancel icon to remove the suggestion. On re-opening the people cluster, you will see merge suggestions again.

Sort options in People View

Tap () icon from the upper-right corner of the People View.

Select Sort by option to bring up the Sort panel.

Select an option from the Sort panel to sort your people clusters:

By First Name Sorts named people clusters in alphabetical order of their first names

By Last Name Sorts named people clusters in alphabetical order of their last names

By Count Sorts people clusters by the number of photos contained in the clusters

Tap your selection again to toggle between ascending and descending order of the selected sorting option. Named people clusters always show up above the unnamed clusters.

Name a people cluster

In the People View, tap the unnamed cluster. The cluster opens.

In the open cluster, tap the Add Name field at the top of the cluster to bring up the Rename Person dialog box.

Type a name and tap OK at the bottom of the Rename Person dialog box. Tap Cancel to exit.

Rename a people cluster

To rename a people cluster, tap a people cluster in the People view and do any of the following:

Directly edit the name at the top of the named cluster. Once you have edited the name, tap OK at the bottom of the Rename Person dialog box.

Tap () icon at the upper-right corner of the screen and select Rename Person. You can then edit the name at the top of the cluster and tap OK at the bottom of the Rename Person dialog box.

Tap Cancel to exit the Rename Person dialog box.

Remove photos from a people cluster

In the People view, tap the name of a cluster to open it.

Long press a photo to enter multi-select mode and select the photos you want to remove from the cluster.

Tap from the bottom to bring up the Remove Photos dialog box.

Select Remove from person to remove the selected photos from the cluster. Select Permanently Delete to delete photos from All Photos and any corresponding album.

Set cover photo in a people cluster

To set any photo in a people cluster as its cover photo, do the following:

In a people cluster, open the desired photo.

Tap () from the top right corner.

Select Organize from the context menu.

Tap Set as Cover Photo, to set the photo as the cover photo of the people cluster.

Disable People View

Lightroom desktop and Lightroom for mobile (iOS and Android) analyze photos in the cloud to detect people to form clusters in People view. If you do not want Lightroom to analyze photos, you can disable People View where all existing face model data is deleted from Lightroom servers. Lightroom then no longer analyzes new photos and does not automatically group them into clusters. If you have any existing clusters in People View, they remain the same and are not deleted.

When you enable this option, Lightroom for mobile segments the grid photos By Days (default). You can also choose more segmentation options—By Years, Months, Hours, Flags, Star Ratings, and File Types.

Select one of these sorting options to reorder the display of photos based on the selected criteria. Clicking the option again toggles between ascending and descending orders.

Sort By > Custom

Use this sort option to manually reorder your grid photos.

Tap the edit icon beside the Custom Order option, to show the Reorder panel. Long-press a photo and drag-drop it to the desired location. Tap the Custom Order option again to toggle between ascending and descending orders.

View Options

In the Grid view, tap the three-dots icon at the upper-right corner. From the content-menu, choose View Options.

Tap to enable Show Info Overlays button in the View Options menu and select from any of these information to show up as info overlays on all the photos in Grid view.

File Type

Flags and Ratings

Photo Info

EXIF Info

Scroll up the menu to choose a thumbnail size option:

Small Thumbnails

Normal Thumbnails

Large Thumbnails

Camera Roll edit view

The Camera Roll edit view is available when you pick a photo from your device's Camera Roll for adding photos into Lightroom for mobile.

Camera roll edit view

The photo on your Camera Roll opens in the Camera Roll edit view. In this view, you can apply edits on the photo. When you accept the edits, the photo is automatically imported into Lightroom.

Prevent From Sleep Switch on to prevent your device from sleeping while connected to power.

Local Storage Displays the space usage on your local device by the locally stored copies, cached files, and the free space available.

Clear Cache Tap to clear previews and temporary files, from your mobile device. No photos or edits are deleted.

Import

Auto Add from Camera Roll - Photos, Screenshots, Videos Switch on the respective toggle button to allow automatic import of any new photo, screenshot, or video from your Camera Roll or Gallery.

Add Copyright Switch on to add your copyright metadata to the images while importing them.

Lens Profile Corrections Switch on to enable lens profile corrections for all image files or only for raw images.

Sharing Options

Watermark Include watermark in your photos while sharing or saving them to camera roll. Customize the watermark. Learn more

Metadata Switch on or off the options to share Caption, Camera & Camera Raw info, and Location info with metadata.

People View Switch on the toggle button to enable Lightroom to analyze and group similar faces in the People folder.

Gesture Shortcuts Tap to view the gestures that you can use in the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for mobile app.

Show Touches. Switch on to display a red dot where your finger/stylus touches the screen.

Left Handed Editing(iPad-only) Switch on to display the Edit controls and panels on the left edge of the screen.

Learn essential photography workflows

Once you've signed in and acquainted yourself with the workspace in Lightroom for mobile (iOS), here's what all you can do with your photos:

Capture photos - You can use Depth capture mode to shoot photos in HEIC format or use HDR mode to capture high-contrast scenes. You can use Lightroom's in-app camera to adjust settings like shutter speed, focus, flash, and others, in the Pro mode.

Import photos - You can import photos from Camera Roll or Gallery. You can also import photos from files or directly from a DSLR camera. You can further set up albums and folders, and organize your photos in order by applying ratings or flags.

Search and organize photos - You can create albums and further organize them into folders. You can also arrange photos in order using filter options. You can search for photos within an album or in the All Photos view using metadata, keywords, and facets.

Edit photos - You can edit photos with custom presets, apply radial and graduated filters, make local adjustments, edit copyright info of photos and albums, and more. You can also retouch, remove haze, and enhance your photos.

Save, share, and export photos - You can save your photos from Lightroom to your computer, mobile device, or hard drive. You can add watermarks before you export and share photos and albums with their metadata.